EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, Opuntia cochenillifera, Cactus cochenillifer, Cactus coccinellifer, Cactus a cochenilles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dup...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, Opuntia cochenillifera, Cactus cochenillifer, Cactus coccinellifer, Cactus a cochenilles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dup...
EditorialAn Oriental Potentate Accompanied by His Halberd Bearer, Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish / Italian, 1591 - 1652), Spain, about 1625 - 1630, Point of the brush with carmine red ink (from cochineal?), squared in pen and brown ink, 23 ? 13.5 cm (9 1/16 ? 5 5/16...
EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialCochineal-coloured passionflower, Passiflora kermesina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialCochineal-coloured passionflower, Passiflora kermesina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialCochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus (Coccus cacti) on a prickly pear cactus, Opuntia species. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1840.
EditorialAn Oriental Potentate Accompanied by His Halberd Bearer; Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish / Italian, 1591 - 1652; Spain, Europe; about 1625 - 1630; Point of the brush with carmine red ink (from cochineal?); squared in pen and brown ink; 23 x 13.5 cm (9 1/16 x...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica, with cochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus. Kermes beetle, Kermes vermilio, with Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch f...
EditorialOpuntia, nopales or paddle cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera (Spineless cochineal fig, Cactus cochinillifer) with cochineal beetles. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful P...